International Basketball Federation Women’s AmeriCup final where they are set to meet defending champions United

States in San Juan.

with a world shot put record of 23.37 metres that felt almost inevitable on the opening day of the United

States Track and Field Olympic trials.

Ukraine’s Iryna Shchetnik and Italy’s Andrea Liverani earned gold medals on the final day of the World Shooting Para Sport World Cup in Lima.

Air Base Shooting Range.She achieved a score of 248 points in the final to hold off the challenge of United

States’ Kevin Nguyen.Nguyen scored 245.6 points to finish in second placed.France’s Jean-Louis Michaud

US Open at the halfway stage after producing a stunning second round to join Russell Henley of the United

States at the top of the standings at Torrey Pines in San Diego.

The United States overcame Poland in three sets to remain undefeated in this season's women's Volleyball

China’s Zheng Tao, home swimmer Josia Topf and Israel's Mark Malyar provided the World Para Swimming World Series event in Berlin with further world records on day two of competition.

this year’s World Series, which has also included events in Sheffield in Britain, Lewisville in the United

States and Lignano Sabbiadoro in Italy.Competition continues until Sunday (June 20).Para swimmers are

The Federation of International Bandy (FIB) has announced its upcoming World Championships will take place in Russia, after the events were approved as exceptions to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) sanctions.

in Russia was confirmed to take place between October 11 and 17.A Russian team, Sweden, Finland, the United

States, Norway, Kazakhstan, Estonia and Germany are set to compete.The World Championship in Syktyvkar

they defeated unbeaten Canada to earn a place in the gold-medal match against defending champions the United

States.

The remaining quota places for the archery tournament at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics are set to be determined over the next three days in Paris.

Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea and The Netherlands have already qualified for the men’s team event.The United

States, back-to-back Olympic team silver medallists, will be among the teams looking to join them, but

Spectators will be allowed - within COVID-19 guidelines - at the World Para Ice Hockey Championship due to start in Ostrava tomorrow.

Republic.That will be followed by a re-match of the 2019 final - with Paralympic and defending champions the United

States facing Canada, whom they beat in both finals.The World Championship was pushed back from its

Protests are set to be held in around 50 cities across the world calling for a mass boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics "over one of the worst human rights crises of our time".

Japan, Taiwan, India, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, England, Scotland, United

States, Canada, Mexico and Argentina."

The United States is among 25 countries where protests are set to take place, calling for a mass boycott

the US and China are strained, with American authorities joining the European Union, Canada and the United

Japan's tennis world number two Naomi Osaka will not compete at Wimbledon but plans to return to court for her home Olympic Games in Tokyo.

led to doubts over her participation at a home Olympics in Tokyo ©Getty ImagesOsaka grew up in the United

States but confirmed her Japanese citizenship in October 2019, in order to represent the host nation

United States continued the defence of their International Basketball Federation Women's AmeriCup title

South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen joined clubhouse leader Russell Henley of the United States at the top

Given fair weather in Southampton over the next five days, or if necessary six, either the cricketers of India or New Zealand will become the inaugural men's world Test champions. In the event of a draw, the title will be shared.

were the only full members.Although the first international cricket match was between Canada and the United

States in 1844, the first official Test match did not take place until 1877.Australia beat England by